Source: REWIRE press release
More computational research is being published with its data and code. But sharing those materials is not the same as making a result reproducible. To reproduce a computational result, researchers also need a record of the decisions made along the way: what was planned, which choices were kept, the software environment in which the analysis ran, and the links connecting a publication to the exact data, code and workflow behind it.
The tools for capturing this information already exist. The problem is that they are rarely built into the everyday processes of research. Research planning, execution and publishing do not routinely ask for this information, so it often goes unrecorded. By the time somebody tries to reproduce the work, important parts of the record may already be lost.
REWIRE sets out to change that. Rather than developing another set of tools, REWIRE brings together three existing approaches, each addressing a different stage of the research process: planning, execution and publication. The aim is to embed them into normal research workflows so that the information needed for reproducibility is captured as the work happens, rather than reconstructed afterwards.
The project will test this approach in real organisations, including national research funders, research infrastructures, research-performing organisations and a scientific publishing platform. Just as importantly, it will document what organisations need to put these practices in place, and what it takes for them to last.
Two days in Athens
On 17–18 September 2026, the twelve project partners and eight pilot organisations met in Athens, with additional colleagues joining online, for the REWIRE kick-off.
Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC Chief Executive Officer, and Joaquin Lopez Lerida, Data e-Science, Blockchain and European Projects Officer at LW ERIC ICT-Core, joined the meeting. LifeWatch ERIC is one of the eight organisations (pilots) that will put the REWIRE interventions into practice in their own institutional settings, adopting the interventions that make sense for its role and existing workflows; what LW ERIC learns will feed into the REWIRE BLUEPRINTS: an open record of what organisations tried, how they implemented it and what worked in practice.
“If you cannot repeat, why believe the results?” asked Professor Yannis Ioannidis of Athena Research Center, which coordinates REWIRE, in his opening remarks. In computational research, he argued, repeating a result is often technically possible. The harder problem is making reproducibility part of routine practice.
During the two-day hybrid event, project partners established the foundations for collaboration, reviewed the project objectives and coordinated the activities that will support computational reproducibility across research practice, policy and infrastructure. The meeting also introduced REWIRE’s implementation pathways, reproducibility workflows, training programme, pilot activities and plans for building a cross-sectoral community.
For more information, read the official press release.
About the project
REWIRE is a Horizon Europe project making computational reproducibility a practical, everyday part of research across Europe.
REWIRE works with pilot organisations across Europe to deploy reproducibility interventions at three points of the research workflow — planning, executing and publishing — and captures the evidence of what works. The results become reusable blueprints, training and a follower network, so other organisations can adopt the same practices without starting from scratch.
REWIRE runs from September 2026 to August 2029 and is coordinated by Athena Research Center.
Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No 101287431. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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